Deputy Headteacher: Behaviour and Standards
| Posting date: | 27 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 4AU |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 0e12571c-8f4e-46e1-9105-706054a01f64 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Come and work in a school where students and staff matter. Our care, candour and collaborative practices ensure year on year success!
Are you a passionate and strategic leader ready to make a lasting impact?
We are seeking a dynamic and committed Deputy Headteacher to lead on Behaviour and Standards in our thriving secondary school. This pivotal role will shape and drive a culture of equity, high expectations, and support for all learners, ensuring excellence in line with the latest Ofsted framework and statutory guidance.
As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will:
• Lead whole-school strategies to improve behaviour, conduct, and attendance.
• Champion a high expectations approach to behaviour that is rooted in understanding and respect.
• Bring strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and a deep understanding of the challenges facing young people today.
• Collaborate with families, staff, and external agencies to remove barriers to learning.
• Be relentless in your commitment to improving opportunities, outcomes, and life chances for all students.
• Model integrity, resilience, and professionalism within a positive, hardworking team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking leadership team and help shape a school where every student feels safe, supported, and empowered to succeed.
What the school offers its staff
Wingfield Academy has become an oversubscribed and high performing secondary school, placing it as one of the highest performing schools in Rotherham and in the top 7% nationally for progress. Wingfield has also been named a national lead school as part of the DFE’s behaviour hub programme. The Academy is looking to expand and develop further, attracting the best people to work alongside our dedicated and ambitious staff who go the extra mile to make a quantifiable and powerful contribution to social mobility. We focus on the things that matter.
Wingfield Academy offers a ‘child centred, progress focused’ academy ethos, we have a cohort of students with high standards of behaviour and a willingness to learn. We have a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter. Wingfield offers a supportive and committed leadership team with a clear vision of raising standards of teaching, learning and positive behaviour.
New Collaborative Learning Trust (NCLT) has a dynamic, positive and supportive culture for staff and students, with an enviable reputation for staff career progression and development. You will join a focused and driven team, committed to providing the highest standards of education and service.
The Trust currently comprises of three 16-19 Colleges, three Secondary Schools and three Primary Schools.
Why Work for Us?
• NCLT was crowned ‘Employer of the Year’ at the 2023 MAT Excellence Awards - these national awards celebrate the very best performers from over one thousand MATs across the country
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing as outlined in our staff wellbeing charter
• Access to high quality professional training, both in-house and externally, to support your professional development
• Attractive pension scheme
• Additional benefits such as a cycle to work scheme and a technology scheme
• A culture of self-reflection and improvement to meet the needs of our staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Come and work in a school where students and staff matter. Our care, candour and collaborative practices ensure year on year success!
Are you a passionate and strategic leader ready to make a lasting impact?
We are seeking a dynamic and committed Deputy Headteacher to lead on Behaviour and Standards in our thriving secondary school. This pivotal role will shape and drive a culture of equity, high expectations, and support for all learners, ensuring excellence in line with the latest Ofsted framework and statutory guidance.
As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will:
• Lead whole-school strategies to improve behaviour, conduct, and attendance.
• Champion a high expectations approach to behaviour that is rooted in understanding and respect.
• Bring strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and a deep understanding of the challenges facing young people today.
• Collaborate with families, staff, and external agencies to remove barriers to learning.
• Be relentless in your commitment to improving opportunities, outcomes, and life chances for all students.
• Model integrity, resilience, and professionalism within a positive, hardworking team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking leadership team and help shape a school where every student feels safe, supported, and empowered to succeed.
What the school offers its staff
Wingfield Academy has become an oversubscribed and high performing secondary school, placing it as one of the highest performing schools in Rotherham and in the top 7% nationally for progress. Wingfield has also been named a national lead school as part of the DFE’s behaviour hub programme. The Academy is looking to expand and develop further, attracting the best people to work alongside our dedicated and ambitious staff who go the extra mile to make a quantifiable and powerful contribution to social mobility. We focus on the things that matter.
Wingfield Academy offers a ‘child centred, progress focused’ academy ethos, we have a cohort of students with high standards of behaviour and a willingness to learn. We have a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter. Wingfield offers a supportive and committed leadership team with a clear vision of raising standards of teaching, learning and positive behaviour.
New Collaborative Learning Trust (NCLT) has a dynamic, positive and supportive culture for staff and students, with an enviable reputation for staff career progression and development. You will join a focused and driven team, committed to providing the highest standards of education and service.
The Trust currently comprises of three 16-19 Colleges, three Secondary Schools and three Primary Schools.
Why Work for Us?
• NCLT was crowned ‘Employer of the Year’ at the 2023 MAT Excellence Awards - these national awards celebrate the very best performers from over one thousand MATs across the country
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing as outlined in our staff wellbeing charter
• Access to high quality professional training, both in-house and externally, to support your professional development
• Attractive pension scheme
• Additional benefits such as a cycle to work scheme and a technology scheme
• A culture of self-reflection and improvement to meet the needs of our staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.